House rules for our White Box games...

For our White Box D&D sessions we are employing a few basic house rules beyond what is in the 3 little brown books. Here is a brief list of the major house rules. These are pretty much inspired by Gary Gygax's latter-day White Box house rules:

Character Generation:

• Abilities: 4d6, and remove the lowest die. Assign the six totals to abilities of choice.
• Level 1 characters start with maximum hit points.
• Players may not name the characters after themselves, because character death may result in death of the player.
• Each character starts with 3d6 x 10 pieces of gold.
  

Ability Bonuses:

• Strength: Fighters with STR of 14 or higher do +1 damage.

Combat Round:

1. Players declare actions (move, missile, melee, spell).
2. Player and DM roll for initiative.
3. Actions resolved for high initiative group.
4. Actions resolved for low initiative group.

Combat:

• Natural 1: Weapon dropped or misfired.
• Natural 20: Roll double dice.
• Bind Wounds: Immediately after combat (within one 10min turn) players may bind wounds for +1d4 HP. This will restore consciousness.

Weapon Damage:

• Unless otherwise noted, all normal weapons do 1d6 damage. Exceptions:
• Dagger: 1d6-1
• Two-handed Sword or Hammer: 1d6+1

Unconsciousness and Death:

• A character is unconscious at 0HP.
• A character is dead when it reaches a negative number of hit points equal to its level.